The Sisters of St Joseph are the third religious community to publicly voice their concern about the rapid escalation of coal seam gas exploration and will shortly launch an online petition, reports the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney.
"Coal seam gas is not a clean energy source, merely something cleaner than brown coal as it produces slightly less greenhouse gas," says Sister Jan Barnett rsj of the Canberra-based Josephite Justice Office.
"The rapid increase in licences for the exploration and mining of coal seam gas has enormous implications for our farmers, farmlands and rural communities as well as many regional towns and even cities such as Sydney," she says pointing to proposals to mine coal seam gas in heavily built-up areas such as St Peters, Rosebery and Eastern Creek.
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